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obama's own rhetoric. i think the level of scrutiny is significantly higher than even contemplated by folks who backed the patriot act. certainly if i am by what novak did the patriot act. this is too much. it's too intrusive and i do feel it's piloted the basic liberties. that doesn't speak to whether edward snowden could be prosecuted. it does speak to the fact that government is now so large that it knows everything about you from what you purchased on amazon to how much money you earn. even they are not really, where the government knows nothing about you. if that doesn't frighten people into recognizing our government is just too bad i'm not sure exactly what will. >> host: eric taking her to eat then there are that of christian/conservative writers i know. what is your best recommendation of how to break into hollywood? by the way, he treats that@pastor craig. >> guest: of the best way to break into hollywood is to keep it on the down low. i recommend this to folks in hollywood trying to break in, wh
obama's own rhetoric. i think the level of scrutiny is significantly higher than even contemplated by folks who backed the patriot act. certainly if i am by what novak did the patriot act. this is too much. it's too intrusive and i do feel it's piloted the basic liberties. that doesn't speak to whether edward snowden could be prosecuted. it does speak to the fact that government is now so large that it knows everything about you from what you purchased on amazon to how much money you earn. even...
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obama administration policies. we have an hour and a half left with our guest this month on "in depth," amy goodman. our producer, tonya davis, often sends the authors that we have on the program a series of questions, and she sent amy a series of questions as well. amy goodman provided answers, and we want to show those to you now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ oodman on >> host: amy goodman. to one and a half hours left in our program today from robert holdman, mdn pueblo, colorado. given the words spoken by president obama during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, are you disappointed by his actions? will the u.s. ever adopt a single-payer health care system? >> guest: very important question. and i'd like to also go back to the issue you raised, peter, before the break, and that is president obama speaking at the dedication of the mlk memorial, the dr. king memorial. you know, here we are on this sunday. it i
obama administration policies. we have an hour and a half left with our guest this month on "in depth," amy goodman. our producer, tonya davis, often sends the authors that we have on the program a series of questions, and she sent amy a series of questions as well. amy goodman provided answers, and we want to show those to you now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ oodman on...
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president obama has chosen the worst option available. the yes would be going in and take out the assad regime. that's what it's about. why else. the weapons of mass destruction right lane was drawn as a warning and not even a warning to the syrian. 100,000 people have been killed. i don't know any people kill -- the point of the redline on weapons of mass destruction was a warning to the iranian. if you go in and lob a few crew missile and break a few things and assad stays in power and you do nothing else. you'll end up with the iranians being further in -- that's the worst of both position. if i'm on the no side, by the way. on the imre side, you know, is the argument against iran. my feeling is okay if you want to make an argument depose the iranian regime. you don't fight a approximatey war with a country you could take in a heart beat. the united would defeat them. it would not a huge blood bath or vietnam. there's a viable opposition in iran which was stronger than the viable whatever opposition there was to saddam hussein in iraq.
president obama has chosen the worst option available. the yes would be going in and take out the assad regime. that's what it's about. why else. the weapons of mass destruction right lane was drawn as a warning and not even a warning to the syrian. 100,000 people have been killed. i don't know any people kill -- the point of the redline on weapons of mass destruction was a warning to the iranian. if you go in and lob a few crew missile and break a few things and assad stays in power and you do...
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and i can't read president obama's mind. i don't know why he expended energy and resources trying to block president aristed's homecoming. as i've said, it was a violation of human rights law and sadly so. i disagreed very vigorously with the president on his role. >> host: okay. i've got to defend myself here. it was in "quitting america," and this is what you wrote, mr. robinson. when i was a small boy in grammar class, i developed the: >> guest: that's very true. that's very true. yes, i wrote that, and i felt that way, and i thought everyone did, that before that first impression is overturned by access and knowledge that the faces that seem to deliver certain messages, that faces that have act by lin -- aquiline, straight sort of geometric, slashing exactness to them that give you the impression of precision and rectitude and scientific perfection and all of that. and then there are round faces with soft features that are warm and fuzzy that seem to suggest something else, all of which is totally illogical and makes no
and i can't read president obama's mind. i don't know why he expended energy and resources trying to block president aristed's homecoming. as i've said, it was a violation of human rights law and sadly so. i disagreed very vigorously with the president on his role. >> host: okay. i've got to defend myself here. it was in "quitting america," and this is what you wrote, mr. robinson. when i was a small boy in grammar class, i developed the: >> guest: that's very true. that's...
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have you chase -- changed any views since barack obama? >> guest: i remember my mother, when he was nominated, we were in montreal hazel and i were. she called me at the hotel 93. she said, she was crying, she said it's the greatest day of my life. -- america is many places. it's tolerant, accepting within and place where views can be moderated and differences can be reconciled. the candidacy of president obama it's not only important to the black community. it's important to other segments of america as well. but he still faces a vicious kind of. it's not the same richmond, virginia, i saw when i was young. i think there were several americas. i had grown tired of at least one of them. >> host: in the book you write america never helps anyone. even the starving unless it's proposed assistance can be tied to an american interest either strategic or economic and one cannot always distinguish one from the other. it's >> guest: it's largely true in foreign tan. it has to be associated with a strategic purpose. when we look at what we did as a
have you chase -- changed any views since barack obama? >> guest: i remember my mother, when he was nominated, we were in montreal hazel and i were. she called me at the hotel 93. she said, she was crying, she said it's the greatest day of my life. -- america is many places. it's tolerant, accepting within and place where views can be moderated and differences can be reconciled. the candidacy of president obama it's not only important to the black community. it's important to other...
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obama's speech. >> host: why was that included? >> guest: because i think it was quite revealing about how barack obama sees the world, how he sees america's role in the world and how he sees is lamb. -- islam. there were a number of other documents that were quite representative of the time. a mellon book on taxation, for example, is incredibly appropriate because andrew mellon came in, in 1920 -- never heard of the great depression in 1920. but we had 22% unemployment. very high in some parts. most unemployment was reaching on average well over 15%. as veterans came back from the war, and we were already producing at 100%, here come all the veterans. and of course, -- mellon does a study of tax revenue, and he says, you know, looks like tax revenues have been declining a little bit. why are tax revenues declining in and in the study, he found that tax rates had gone up steadily, and yet everytime the tax rate went up more, the revenues declined a little bit more from that group. and he concluded that, you know, it might be better
obama's speech. >> host: why was that included? >> guest: because i think it was quite revealing about how barack obama sees the world, how he sees america's role in the world and how he sees is lamb. -- islam. there were a number of other documents that were quite representative of the time. a mellon book on taxation, for example, is incredibly appropriate because andrew mellon came in, in 1920 -- never heard of the great depression in 1920. but we had 22% unemployment. very high...
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we have said publicly the plans put forth by romney and obama certainly on taxes alone the obama plan is an equitable plan for the country as a whole, no doubt about that, we have said that. what is amazing is we talked about how mild that is compared to the way we use to deal with those issues. is certainly better than a system that lets somebody of romney's wealth pay 14% of income in federal taxes. that is a rage is. >> host: toward the end of the campaign, the 2012 campaign republicans started saying everybody should participate pointing out 50% of americans are not paying any income tax. what is your view on that? >> guest: the income keeps going down. you reach a point where ordinarily i would agree and say absolutely. everyone should be participating in the society. the income keeps going down for those people at the bottom, and i don't know how you can get more money out of them. >> guest: ignored the fact that those people are not paying federal income taxes still paying social security and medicare tax. is not as though they are not paying something to the federal government
we have said publicly the plans put forth by romney and obama certainly on taxes alone the obama plan is an equitable plan for the country as a whole, no doubt about that, we have said that. what is amazing is we talked about how mild that is compared to the way we use to deal with those issues. is certainly better than a system that lets somebody of romney's wealth pay 14% of income in federal taxes. that is a rage is. >> host: toward the end of the campaign, the 2012 campaign...
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taxes alone, the obama plan is a more, we think, equitable plan for the country as a whole. no doubt about that. and, you know, and we've said that. but what's amazing as we've talked about today is how mild that is compared to the way we used to deal with those issues. but that was certainly better in a system -- than a system that lets somebody of romney's wealth pay 14 president of his -- 14% of his income in federal taxes. that's just outrageous. >> host: now, on the other side, toward the end of this 2012 campaign, the republican side started saying, well, everybody should participate pointing out that 40, 50% of americans do not pay any income tax. >> guest: right. >> host: what's your view on that? >> guest: well, the problem is if the income keeps going down, i mean, you reach a point where ordinarily i would agree with that, i would say absolutely. everyone should be participating in the society. as the income keeps going down for those people, you know, at the bottom, i don't know how you can get more money out of them. >> guest: and also, that thing ignored the fa
taxes alone, the obama plan is a more, we think, equitable plan for the country as a whole. no doubt about that. and, you know, and we've said that. but what's amazing as we've talked about today is how mild that is compared to the way we used to deal with those issues. but that was certainly better in a system -- than a system that lets somebody of romney's wealth pay 14 president of his -- 14% of his income in federal taxes. that's just outrageous. >> host: now, on the other side,...
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obama's cairo speech, for example. >> host: why was that included? >> guest: that was included because i think it was quite revealing about how barack obama sees the world, how he sees america's role in the world and how he sees islam. there were a number of other documents in there that i think were quite representative of the time. mellon's booklet on taxation, for example, is incredibly appropriate to today's debate. because andrew mellon came in in 1920. you never heard of the great depression of 1920. but we had 22% unemployment. it was very high in some parts. most unemployment was reaching on average well over 15%. we were already producing at 100%, and here come all these veterans, so you're going to have some unemployment. >> host: treasury secretary, correct? >> guest: mellon? yeah. and, of course, he's not in until 1921 when harding is elected and mellon comes in. mellon does a study of tax revenues x he says it looks like tax revenues have been declining a little bit. why are tax revenues declining? and in his study he found that tax rate
obama's cairo speech, for example. >> host: why was that included? >> guest: that was included because i think it was quite revealing about how barack obama sees the world, how he sees america's role in the world and how he sees islam. there were a number of other documents in there that i think were quite representative of the time. mellon's booklet on taxation, for example, is incredibly appropriate to today's debate. because andrew mellon came in in 1920. you never heard of the...
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it's president clinton -- president obama's birthday today. he's 52. those students, here's what i would say. the average person today lives to be about 80 years old in this country. the first 20-25 years you spend either preparing yourself or not preparing yourself. if you prepare yourself, you have 60 years to reap the benefits. and if you don't prepare yourself, you have 60 years to suffer the consequence. now is the time when you are making that decision. you are the only one who gets to do it. you .. >> host: laura tweets in: a friend of hers' daughter got a ben carson scholarship, and it was great, really special. what is a ben carson scholarship? >> guest: well, first of all, congratulations to that young lady, because it is very hard to win. [laughter] you've got to be really smart. but it's what i was talking about, you know? our fellowship program, we're in all 50 states. and we acknowledge, it's really more of a recognition program for students and we acknowledge, more of a recognition program for students starting in the fourth grade, they
it's president clinton -- president obama's birthday today. he's 52. those students, here's what i would say. the average person today lives to be about 80 years old in this country. the first 20-25 years you spend either preparing yourself or not preparing yourself. if you prepare yourself, you have 60 years to reap the benefits. and if you don't prepare yourself, you have 60 years to suffer the consequence. now is the time when you are making that decision. you are the only one who gets to do...
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sentence by john markoff in setting the nation on a course to map the act of human brain president obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than the war in afghanistan are finding common ground with his republican opponents. this says we record this has not been announced but i didn't see your name and the story. were you involved? >> guest: very much so. this is an exciting opportunity. this is the kind of visionary project that is right on the edge of the possible which is what nih should be all about. we have after all got the ability to understand the brain in certain ways but their huge areas that we really don't have a clue about how it works. for instance we can record an individual brain cell and neuron and see what it's doing and we can take teachers of the brain with mri scans or ct scans or pet scans and see the whole thing but there is this a marmot's gap in between about how the circuits of the brain function in order to be able to move my hand or to look at you and process that information or to lay down a memory. we don't know how it works. with technology, you
sentence by john markoff in setting the nation on a course to map the act of human brain president obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than the war in afghanistan are finding common ground with his republican opponents. this says we record this has not been announced but i didn't see your name and the story. were you involved? >> guest: very much so. this is an exciting opportunity. this is the kind of visionary project that is right on the edge of the possible which is...
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why america elect obama twice. is it good for the country or not? >> caller: that's obviously a very philosophical question. >> host: something you discuss in "america the beautiful." >> guest: i do. first of all, i will say in 2008, the things that the president was saying were very attractive to anyone, you know, we're going get rid of all of this partisanship. we have transparency. we'll get rid of the special interests group. i said, yeah, that guys sounds really, really good. obviously none of those things happened. but you can certainly understand why the first election took place. the second election, i think it was a matter of people thinking that, well, he didn't do that great of job, i'm not sure i like the other guy either, and, you know, so sort of like half a dozen one way. six the other way. i don't think they really felt that thing wowed change that much either way. couple that with an extraordinary campaign. campaign staff campaign mechanism. an extremely articulate and compelling speaker. then you also have to recognize that a lot o
why america elect obama twice. is it good for the country or not? >> caller: that's obviously a very philosophical question. >> host: something you discuss in "america the beautiful." >> guest: i do. first of all, i will say in 2008, the things that the president was saying were very attractive to anyone, you know, we're going get rid of all of this partisanship. we have transparency. we'll get rid of the special interests group. i said, yeah, that guys sounds...
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and president obama. he gave a very good speech a couple of years ago and here are two of the neck it. secretary gates can't do we have more military personnel and one carrier battle group the united states navy more military personnel and one carrier battle group and we have american diplomats all over the world. here is another if that doesn't convince you. we have more members of the armed forces marching bands in the navy air force army and marines, a true fact competent american diplomats. >> now a conversation with author and columnist melanie mee phillips on the tepees "in depth" series. she's the author of nine books. her latest guardian angel is a memoir of her personal and professional experiences as a journalist in the u.k.. in the next three or she talks about those experiences and her thoughts on issues pertaining to terrorism education and health care. >> host: melanie phillips in your just-released autobiography guardian angel you rights to the question i'm constantly asked whether i am now
and president obama. he gave a very good speech a couple of years ago and here are two of the neck it. secretary gates can't do we have more military personnel and one carrier battle group the united states navy more military personnel and one carrier battle group and we have american diplomats all over the world. here is another if that doesn't convince you. we have more members of the armed forces marching bands in the navy air force army and marines, a true fact competent american diplomats....